Institutional design and the politics of constitutional modification: Understanding amendment failure in the United States and Canada

Law and Society Review

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 111-135

  Manfredi, Christopher P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0031500198     PISSN: 00239216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3054096     Document Type: Article

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